Maybe it isn’t true. It’s testimony from a Kuwait-born businessman, apparently without corroborating evidence thus far. But if Ilhan Omar really were an agent of Qatar and passing information to Iran, would she be acting any differently from how she behaves now?
“Ilhan Omar ‘working for Qatar’, Florida court hears,” by Donna Rachel Edmunds, Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2019 (thanks to B.):
Ilhan Omar was recruited by a foreign government, received funding from a foreign government, and passed sensitive information through intermediates to Iran, a Florida court has been told.
The claims came during testimony by Kuwati-born Canadian businessman Alan Bender, who was giving evidence in the trial of Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad al-Thani. The Qatari emir’s brother stands accused of ordering his American bodyguard to murder two people, and of holding an American citizen hostage. His deposition, obtained by Al Arabiya English, was authenticated by the attorney for the plaintiffs, according to the publication.
Speaking from Toronto by video link, Bender told the Florida District Court that he met with Qatar’s Secretary to the Emir for Security Affairs Mohammad bin Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Masnad and two other senior Qatari officials.
According to his sworn deposition, the three officials told him: “If it wasn’t for our cash, Ilhan Omar would be just another black Somali refugee in America collecting welfare and serving tables on weekends.”
Bender testified that the officials asked him to recruit American politicians and journalists as Qatari assets, and that when he objected, was told that several prominent figures were already on the payroll. US Congresswoman Omar was described as the “jewel in the crown,” he said.
Qatar “recruited Ilhan Omar from even way before she thought about becoming a government official. […] They groomed her and arranged the foundation, the grounds, for her to get into politics way before she even showed interest. They convinced her,” he added.
The deposition shows he further told the court that, during a 2017 meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Omar swore allegiance to him. At the time she was a junior state representative in Minnesota.
Omar was said to also have passed information to Qatar which was subsequently handed along to Iran, and was actively involved in recruiting other American politicians to likewise work for Qatar, Bender testified….

Wellington says
This particular claim aside, I have zero doubt this woman has no real appreciation of the liberty established by the Founding Fathers of America. Indeed, I think her contemptuous of it, which effectively adds up to her being damn ignorant too—but then NO Muslim can be an appreciator of freedom, truly knowledgeable about freedom and supportive of it, while still remaining a Muslim, ditto for Marxists and Nazi types.
After all, if you are a devout Muslim you can’t possibly side with historical American figures like Jefferson, Madison, Jay, Hamilton, Washington, Adams, et al. on the matter of liberty. Can’t be done because you either betray your own religion or you betray America.
Yes, it’s this “simple.” You can embrace Islam or you can embrace the extraordinary emphasis on liberty espoused by the Founding Fathers. You cannot possibly embrace both and be neither a confused human being or a liar.
For what it’s worth, I think Omar has mendacity written all over her. And even conceding she’s sincere about freedom (she isn’t), then she is a very confused human being and confused human beings never add up to something good for any polity, especially free ones.
Conclusion: Omar is a fifth columnist. She’s a totalitarian snake in America. Best, I think, to proceed from this assumption, an assumption which virtually no Democrat or, sad to say, many Republicans (e.g., Mitt Romney) will grasp in the least.
Thus, Omar still has the opportunity to use freedom to destroy freedom. Islam produces many believers who are superb in this iniquitous endeavor.
Like Omar. Like Tlaib too. Like a shitload of Muslims.
Frank Anderson says
+1; Nothing worthwhile to add.
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
+1, yeah, what you said. I should have read your comment first, could have saved myself 20 minutes of typing.
Gottahavehope says
Wow I wish I could have said that!
Amen!
LytchZam says
Yep. Has the ring of truth.
Infidel says
Wellington, I blame both Presidents Bush XLI and Clinton for getting involved in Somalia in the first place, thereby turning Minnesota into Somaliland-in-the-Americas. That’s how we got Ilhan Omar
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
One of the most explosive stories posted on JW in a long time.
Prison time if it’s true.
FYI says
If true,isn’t that Treason?
James Arthur Waber says
in all fairness we have to remember it would make no sense for a Sunni country to recruit Sunni Muslims to be assets for shia Muslim countries
elee says
DEont be so certain of this. Sunni President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is making nice with the Mullahs of Persia as we speak……say nothing of lots of criminal money-laundering theyve been doing for the Persians for a decade or so……and who knows how much Persian oil came to port as nominal ISIS booty sold by the Turks? They can easily agree to cooperate in eradicating western kufr and then fighting it out between themselves for the spoils.
ElderlyZionist says
Muslims belonging hostile sects often cooperate against mutual enemies, then betray and murder each other later. Although the Al-Thani of Qatar are Sunni, Qatar has been cozying up to Iran for some time, which is why the Saudis declared a blockade of Qatar on 2017.
I’m not saying I believe this lurid story, I want corroboration. But it’s quite possible.
Infidel says
Qatar had a rift w/ Saudi Arabia over both its support to the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Jazeera (which the al Thanis own), and so was looking out for other allies. Iran was one that they desperately needed, since UAE could blocade Qatari shipping off the Straits of Hormuz, unless Iran allows them, and now, w/ Erdogan seeking to create a virtual empire, they have Turkey as well. There may be those differences, such as Sunni vs Shia or Arab vs Turkic, but that can take the back seat as the al Thanis confront Riyadh. In the meantime, they’re also bankrolling Turkey in a pretty big way
Dov Berrol says
The strange part of this story is that there is no way a Kuwaiti Arab would have a Jewish name like Alan Bender. This Canadian businessman is covering up his Kuwaiti roots with a little bit of taquiya by using a non-Arab name. Though he may have legally changed it, I bet you his real name is Alhan Bindar or something to that effect. And his testimony against a fellow Arab immigrant in North America is mysterious to say the least. Hard to say if this man is just another Arab con artist with expertise in deception, or is himself being paid to slander Ilhan. I guess this is part of the challenge in trying to understand the web of lies permeating the Arab world. We will have to wait to see if an American court of law can find out the truth about his testimony.
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
Omar accused of being recruited and funded by Qatar, and of passing sensitive information to Iran
If these allegations are true, then it appears that Omar truly is what many of us thought she was, merely a sock puppet for islam. Even if we manage to get rid of her on subversive charges it ain’t enough. With every passing week there will be more and more islamic lackeys doing their best to subvert our nation for islam. Let’s be honest here, we know where their true loyalties lay despite their oath of office. Islam is so hopelessly incompatible with our constitutional laws and humanitarian ideals that it’s practically an oxymoron to say one is a good “American muslim.” I don’t see how one can be both, you can be a phony American and a good muslim or you can be a phony muslim and a good American, but you can’t be honestly dedicated to both because they contradict each other. It’s like saying one is a good “American communist” or a faithful “Nazi Jew,” it just don’t sound right. And it may actually be that some of these muslim infiltrators truly believe they can be both and do some good work for America. But I object to that for some very fundamental reasons. The most important reason being that islam is not an admirable creed, its core teachings are blatantly bigoted and violent as allah’s own dirty mouth proclaims. I don’t want any government representative in America bringing that filth to the table, not on any level of involvement. It’s not enough to say that people have a right to their own beliefs when those beliefs contravene our laws and spread terror, isn’t that fair of me to say? Yeah, it is, especially if you are working as a public servant sworn to upload our laws and defend our nation.
Preventing muslim infiltrators from entering politics helps, but that’s not enough to solve the problem. We need to defend against their jihad intrusions on every level of society, anywhere we see them. It helps me to remember that islam is, at the most basic level, an ideology with ideals and aspirations that are as evil as Nazism or Communism or the worst version of the KKK. And I sleep well at night knowing my small efforts against their evil creed is the right thing to do for everyone, including muslims.
Wellington says
Fine post, AAG. Very accurate.
And I too sleep well at night (at least most nights) knowing that I am aligned with the greatest friend in all the world, i.e., the truth, which never deserts you, is a constant ally, and which totalitarian creeds—four of them historically being Islam, the oldest of all here, Marxism, Nazism and contemporary Western Leftism, the newest of these monumental errors—fear above all.
After all, if the truth prevails, totalitarian creeds are sunk. If truth does not prevail, then the worst of mankind has a very fine chance against the best of mankind. Never more valid, this contention, than with Islam—THE oldest enemy of truth and freedom in all the world and which “magnificently” hides behind its religious veil with great effect for sundry nefarious purposes.
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
Beautifully stated. You’re a true asset to the cause of freedom against the greatest scourge of humanity, islam.
Canada says
Robert,
Do you think the president of the United States “Sees” this, all over the slowly, total, colaspe of Europe.
Wellington says
Canada: Not sure. But Trump did, after all, back in March of 2016, while still a Presidential candidate, say, and I quote, “I think Islam hates us.”
Frankly, while Trump has great street instincts (hence his March 2016 statement), he is short on the pure knowledge front. He is still way ahead of all Democrats, many Republicans and, most ominously, the federal judiciary, wedded as it is to freedom of religion and yet not knowing in the least how Islam will use this provision of the First Amendment to destroy the First Amendment.
In short, Trump is not enough but he points in the right direction. He’s a good start. But truly great, outstandingly great, human beings like a Winston Churchill or an Abraham Lincoln, are needed to “proceed” from Trump to a full comprehension, and with the political talent to convey to the body politic of one Western nation after another, and especially the USA, just how nefarious and lethal Islam is to the “best of the West.”
Not there yet. Better get there soon because evil and ignorance, each of which Islam “excels” in, right now remains in the ascendancy—mankind as a whole still not figuring out that liberty, capitalism, a decent legal system and a proper moral code are the four imperatives for mankind to advance into the future successfully.
Respecting these four imperatives, Islam is deficient in all four. Yes, this is how wretched Islam truly is. Hope mankind figures this out sooner rather than later since the fate of mankind may rest upon this “understanding.”
CogitoErgoSum says
It’s important to keep in mind that under the U.S. legal system, every accused person is presumed innocent until proven guilty. No matter how much I dislike this woman’s politics, I hope she is treated fairly under the law and that the truth prevails — the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Doris says
Oh you mean like Kavanaugh who was guilty until proven innocent???!
Lilithwept says
And like the Clintons and Obama have committed crimes and never been punished for?
It’s one “justice” for the wealthy and powerful and another “justice” for those who can’t afford the expensive drawn out legal,process.
It’s very rare that a wealthy powerful person does any prison time for his crimes, especially if they are in politics…….or Moslem …..
Wellington says
I think, CES, Adam Schiff and his cronies proceed on the assumption that Republicans, and most especially Trump, are guilty until proven innocent.
The fake quid pro quo of Trump with the Ukrainians as opposed to the real quid pro quo by then Vice-President Biden and his doofus, no-nothing son, a la Burisma and the firing of the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Burisma (or no billion dollars—Biden’s own words), points to something very ominous, i.e., a two-tiered justice system which can only function as a major death knell for justice being blind.
As the lawyer I am, when you have one legal system for Democrats and another for Republicans, this signals something as ominous as the Civil War in America back in the 1860’s. Indeed, beginning in that stupidest of American decades, the 1960’s, we are marching foolishly into the future, more and more, with the prospect of a cultural and legal civil war that may very well do more damage to the American Republic than did the 19th-century civil war.
Yes, I think it this grave. As an example, look how the military man, Vindman, has been lauded by Democrats and you dare not criticize him at all, but these same Democrats had no problem with tearing down General Petraeus (calling him “Betraeus”) and Colonel Oliver North.
Oh yeah, a double standard big time. Ominous. Surely. And I lay the fault almost entirely for this “development” on the Left side of the political spectrum, though those on the Right with no guts are guilty too here.
somehistory says
They say Truth is stranger than fiction. This sounds very much like truth. We all have seen her photos taken with er dog an sitting across the table and the two flags of turkey flanking them. Her snake tooth grin, and the other photo taken of the same room with er dog an and members of the moslim brotherhood at a meeting.
she has told many lies. And the pics of her holding up her hand when she is being questioned about her finagling and nefarious and underhanded shenanigans, the only times she doesn’t want her photo taken…the other times when she is being touted as some kind of wonderful, she’s all snake grin and posing for the cameras.
The hand is up and so is the jig about to be.
underbed cat says
If anyone other than the people here are curious why the impeachment hearings of the dems and left never end and how muslim candidates are prepped and running for offices in government think this article reinforces it was to gain enough power to remove a President who viewed our Constitution and Government and people worth protecting. To remain silent that the Islamic hijra by muslims that claimed refugee status, rallied against a wall, being used and may have been following their mission to bring Islam power and sharia, Islamic law to America. The Islamic OIC has been busy funding grant money to universities, bringing in foreign students, giving endowments grants to media, hospitals, chairities donating to candidates and secured foreign money for mosques building, and defending against any ties to terror. The first reports from 9/11 show some connections to foreign countries to fund it and the HLF trial intelligence reports were deeped sixed during the Obama Administration. Islam was presented as not a threat. Is it any wonder the the impeachment gang, turned on President Trump, he has raised the alarms for a wall, freedom of speech, right to bear arms, no foreign law and the impeachment group is working so hard to remove President Trump. He was an threat to the Islamization of America and possible links to hide Americans who did not know or care that Islam was a threat. And yet they fake thier sorrow over investigations that never end and go no where so it seems to break into reality they are in a collusion by ommission.
underbed cat says
Just to add we had hero’s who studied Islam and understod the movement and the threat, but the reality was not grasped nor believed even thought there was a ton of evidence. The cover was genius it’s just a religion of a peculiar goal and they have been reaching their milestones so no one noticed, beleived it they were very protected and had enough money to excuse reality.